Bachelor Technical Computer Science

In Bachelor's, you will combine in-depth computer science with broad technical insights. You will soon understand the devices, services and processes that people, companies and organisations need to exchange, process and store information. This programme covers topics like Cyber Security, Data Science, and AI. This involves a lot of programming as well, so the better you are at mathematics, the more successful you will be in your studies.

In essence, you will learn to think like a computer scientist, distinguishing clearly and sharply what goes well and what goes wrong, and what can be improved between all the separate links a computer system is made of. At the same time, you will become an engineer, capable of applying the basic computer knowledge you acquire in virtually every area of life: from transport to business, from politics to leisure.

Technical Computer Science plays a key role in more and more societal, scientific and technical domains. That is why it is important to be able to work together with experts from other disciplines, from electrical engineers, business information technologists and mechanical engineers to management experts. You will come across all these disciplines at the University of Twente. In fact, interdisciplinary cooperation plays an important role in this programme, both in the research you do and in the challenging team projects you complete each module with.  In Module 2, for example, you and your team will design, test and implement a game in which you compete against other teams – with the winners receiving bonus marks. And in Module 4, you get to work on a project taken from the business world.

An added benefit of our Bachelor’s Technical Computer Science is its international setting. The language of choice is English, we have an international staff – representing countries such as Germany, Italy, Brazil and Romania – and around 40% of our students come from abroad. We focus strongly on intercultural skills, and if you want to follow courses abroad, we will help you. All in all, we offer a great place for you to gain valuable intercultural experience and prepare yourself for a career in a field that increasingly transcends the borders of countries, organisations and cultures.

If you are sufficiently talented and ambitious, you can combine Technical Computer Science with our Bachelor’s Applied Mathematics. If you choose this, you will follow a very demanding, combined programme. After finishing this double degree programme, you will receive two full bachelor's diplomas from the University of Twente. With some extra effort, this double bachelor’s can be completed in three years.